A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4647 West, latitude 36.6611 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/03/19 / 2019-03-02 10:20:39 / March 2, 2019 @ 10:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j9u9. Id of event: us1000j9u9. The temblor was reported at 04:20:39 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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